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What is a literary device?

What is a literary device? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (literature) An identifiable rule of thumb, convention, or structure that is employed in literature and storytelling.
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Sometimes the pretense of purely abstract intellectual rigour is in fact a literary device.
Another commonly used and yet confused literary device, a stands for something.
I was teaching a basic college writing course one summer at the local community college and I wanted to explain irony as a literary device.
Another literary device characteristic of the Targums and still more of Midrash is the introduction of popular narratives which add flavor to the text.
This might only be a literary device or literary preference, since use of the historic present vivifies the action.
What many fans may not realize is that Doritos are also a mighty literary device.

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